While the world has its attention focused on Iraq, Iran and the proxies of Lebanon and Gaza an invisible war rages in northern Iraq near both the Turkish and Iranian borders. Iran is bound by treaty with Turkey to fight the PKK. In return, Turkey has pledged to fight Iran's main armed opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen.
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In fact it has been reported that on June 6 under cover of the G8, thousands of Turkish commandoes crossed into Northern Iraq. Suspiciously enough US troops completely pulled out of these areas only one week before the ongoing invasion occurred. While no proof exists that the US is supporting these efforts it is clear that collusion is rampant. The State Department is actually supporting the cover up by suggesting to the world Turkey has stopped short of invading, in fact the invasion is covertly ongoing.
McCormack did not say if the United States had played a role in the PKK move. "I can't tell you what, if any, role we or anybody else has played in this," he said.
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Northern Iraq, parts of Turkey, Syria and Iran have always had dreams of secession for a Kurdish state. This pisses Turkey and Iran off to no end because Kurds also live in large swaths of both countries. From the Turkish and Iranian perspective the possible formation of an independent Kurdistan threatens there territorial sovereignty.
So, why does this matter? It matters on several fronts.
Kurdistan should have its own country as Iraq is nothing but and old English invasion that restructured the map. Northern Iraq is substantially different from the rest of the country in culture and language. Very few Northern Iraqi’s have nationalist sentiment.
The US is turning its back on the PKK much like we turned our backs on the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan and much like we will eventually turn our backs on Pakistan. This cuts to the core of US capability (and apparently rampant desire) to internally fracture certain groups to support our external invasion and control of their populace. What group in their right mind would side with the US against their own government after our recent hat trick? Southern Shia in Iraq who were slaughtered after George I turned his back, the Northern Alliance who were disarmed and alienated after supporting the Afghanistan invasion and now the PKK who has historically helped the US against the former Baathist regime. And this is just recent, I am sure you Kosites have many more examples of the US driving a wedge between cultures to serve the US agenda.
I believe part of the reason this is occurring is to entice the Iranian army to violate Iraqi territory for use as a reason to strike Iran. I believe it is also being done to subvert the political efforts in Baghdad to allow the US to complete the building of foreign bases and embassies as Dick Cheney and the War Hawks presented in the New American Century manifesto.
Make no mistake, the War in Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq and soon to be Iran and Syria which will draw in Israel is all on the table. It will be Bush and Cheney’s Rosetta stone.
I am miffed why we see NO mainstream press coverage of this most strategic occurrence in Northern Iraq. What are your thoughts?